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Indiana diocese issues school guidelines affirming biological sex, promoting pastoral care

Bishop Kevin Rhoades of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana. / Credit: Diocese of Fort Wayne-South BendCNA Staff, Sep 20, 2024 / 14:10 pm (CNA).The Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana, released guidelines on Sept.12 affirming that diocesan schools and institutes must practice the Church's teaching on sexuality and gender while being compassionate toward those struggling with gender dysphoria. Bishop Kevin Rhoades notes in the policy that all diocesan institutes must use pronouns that align with a student's biological sex. The policy does not permit the use of "'preferred pronouns" in any capacity. It further requires that students use the uniforms and bathrooms that match their biological "God-given sexual identity" and attend single-sex sports and programs that match their biological sex as well. The 11-page document, approved earlier this month by Rhoades, also prohibits "public advocacy for, or celebration of, sexual behavior or ideologies cont...

Japanese sculptor, Notre Dame's O'Regan to receive prestigious Ratzinger Prize

??Etsuro Sotoo is an enthusiastic advocate of the cause of canonization of Antoni Gaudí, known as "God's architect." / Credit: Public Domain CC-BY-SA-4.0 Wikimedia CommonsMadrid, Spain, Sep 20, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA).For the first time, a sculptor and native of Japan will be awarded the Ratzinger Prize.His name is Etsuro Sotoo, born in 1953 in Fukuoka, Japan, and a graduate of Kyoto University.A 1978 visit to Spain changed the course of his life forever. Arriving in the city of Barcelona, he was impressed by the construction of the Sagrada Familia basilica and asked to work there as a sculptor.Following instructions left by Antoni Gaudí, the renowned Spanish architect of the monument, still under construction, Sotoo began his work on the basilica's Nativity façade.During his stay in Barcelona, ?Sotoo converted to Catholicism and received the sacrament of baptism. Sotoo is an enthusiastic advocate of the cause of canonization of Gaudí, known as "God's architect."So...

Trump's planned visit to Pennsylvania Catholic shrine with Polish president is canceled

A man prays at the Candlelight Chapel at the National Shrine to Czestochowa in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, on April 2, 2005, the day Pope John Paul II died. / Credit: William Thomas Cain/Getty ImagesWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 19, 2024 / 17:15 pm (CNA).Former President Donald Trump is no longer planning to attend an event with Polish President Andrzej Duda at a Catholic Marian shrine in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, on Sunday afternoon, Sept. 22.The campaign's scheduled stop at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa in Doylestown has been canceled. The reason for the change in Trump's schedule is unclear.On Sunday afternoon, the Polish-American Smolensk Disaster Commemoration Committee will unveil a monument at the shrine's cemetery to commemorate the Polish solidarity movement and its fight for independence against the Soviet-backed communist regime of the 1940s through the 1980s.A spokesperson for the shrine could not be reached for c...

Vatican to work with Italian authorities to prosecute source of leaks

A hearing in the Vatican finance trial on May 20, 2022. / Credit: Vatican MediaVatican City, Sep 19, 2024 / 11:36 am (CNA).The Vatican is cooperating with Italian prosecutors on an investigation into the leaking of financial information related to the Vatican's major finance trial that ended last year.Italian media report that two men are being investigated for having gained unauthorized access hundreds of times to a database of suspicious financial activity shared with Italy by banks, which includes potentially compromising information on Italian politicians and defendants in the Vatican trial.The database is used by anti-mafia prosecutors and judges in cases of money laundering and terrorism financing.A brief note to journalists from the Holy See Press Office on Tuesday said Vatican prosecutor Alessandro Diddi and the commander of the Vatican gendarmes, Gianluca Gauzzi, met Sept. 17 with the public prosecutor and deputy public prosecutor of Perugia, Italy.The public prosecuto...

UK bishops warn new Public Order Act unfairly affects people of faith

Isabel Spruce-Vaughn was arrested twice for praying outside abortion clinics. / Credit:ADF UKLondon, England, Sep 19, 2024 / 12:06 pm (CNA).The Catholic bishops of England and Wales have condemned legislation relating to prayer outside abortion clinics, claiming that the proposal represents a step backward for civic and religious freedom.Bishop John Sherrington, auxliary bishop of Westminster and spokesperson for the bishops' conference on issues relating to life, said in a Sept. 18 statement that the Public Order Act "constitutes discrimination and disproportionately affects people of faith.""Religious freedom is the foundational freedom of any free and democratic society, essential for the flourishing and realization of dignity of every human person. Religious freedom includes the right to manifest one's private beliefs in public through witness, prayer, and charitable outreach, including outside abortion facilities," Sherrington said."As well as being unnecessary and disprop...

Christian community comes closer together amid attacks in the Holy Land

"If we are attacked because of our common baptism, maybe we should also live this common baptism," said Father Nikodemus Schnabel, abbot of the Dormition Abbey in Jerusalem. / Credit: "EWTN News Nightly" screenshotWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 19, 2024 / 14:47 pm (CNA).Although interreligious dialogue among the Holy Land's Jews, Muslims, and Christians has suffered as a result of the intensification of armed conflict in the region, a Benedictine abbot in Jerusalem said the situation has also led to tighter bonds among the Christians of different backgrounds who remain there."Our enemies have a more ecumenical thinking than we because they don't divide us by denomination, they hate us because we're Christians," said Father Nikodemus Schnabel, abbot of the Dormition Abbey in Jerusalem, who has frequently been the target of spitting attacks by Orthodox Jews in the area.Schnabel, a German citizen who was told by the German government to leave Israel because of the insecurity there...

Nuns appeal to U.S. Supreme Court over New York abortion insurance mandate

The religious groups challenging the abortion mandate include a group of Carmelite sisters, Catholic Charities, and the Sisterhood of St. Mary, an Anglican Episcopal monastic order (pictured here). / Credit: Becket Fund for Religious LibertyCNA Staff, Sep 19, 2024 / 07:50 am (CNA).A group of nuns and other religious groups with charitable missions are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to block a New York state mandate that would force them to cover abortions in their employee health insurance plans."New York's abortion mandate is so extreme that not even Jesus, Mother Teresa, or Mahatma Gandhi would qualify for an exemption," said Eric Baxter, vice president and senior counsel at Becket, the nonprofit religious liberty law firm that is arguing on behalf of the nuns. "The justices should exempt religious organizations once and for all so they can focus on caring for the most vulnerable." The religious groups challenging the abortion mandate include a group of Carmelite sisters,...

Vatican approves devotion at Medjugorje while not pronouncing on authenticity of 'alleged messages'

A statue of Our Lady in Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina. / Credit: Gnuckx via Flickr (CC BY 2.0)Rome Newsroom, Sep 19, 2024 / 09:23 am (CNA).In a highly anticipated report on the alleged decadeslong apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Medjugorje, the Vatican's doctrinal office on Thursday endorsed prudent devotion to Mary at the popular pilgrimage site in Bosnia and Herzegovina yet withheld any declaration on whether the alleged visions are supernatural in origin.The Sept. 19 note from the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF), signed by prefect Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández and approved by Pope Francis in an Aug. 28 audience, grants a "nihil obstat" to the spiritual experience at Medjugorje. The authoritative judgment means that pilgrims may continue to visit and pray at the site, as some 40 million people from around the world have done since the apparitions allegedly first began 43 years ago. Six children, who are now middle-aged, first reported expe...

St. Januarius' blood liquefies in Naples on his feast day

The blood of St. Januarius liquefied on Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024, before a Mass in Naples, Italy, where Archbishop Domenico Battaglia said that the blood of the fourth-century martyr is a powerful reminder that "love is stronger than death." / Credit: Archdiocese of NaplesRome Newsroom, Sep 19, 2024 / 10:40 am (CNA).The blood of St. Januarius liquefied on Thursday before a Mass in Naples, Italy, where the archbishop said that the blood of the fourth-century martyr is a powerful reminder that "love is stronger than death."Archbishop Domenico Battaglia of Naples held up an ampoule containing the relic of the saint's blood in the Naples cathedral on his feast day, revealing the liquefaction to shouts and cheers from the people who had waited in the cathedral since early in the morning. "Every drop of this blood speaks to us of the love of God," Battaglia said in his homily. "This blood is a sign of the blood of Christ, of his passion."The archbishop recalled that Sept. 19 mar...

Catholic manifesto calls on faithful to act coherently in the face of societal crisis

José Masip, co-director of the Congress on Catholics and Public Life. / Credit: Catholic Association of PropagandistsMadrid, Spain, Sep 19, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA).The Congress of Catholics and Public Life, which is scheduled to celebrate its XXVI edition in Madrid in November, calls on Catholics to act coherently to offer solid foundations to a society in crisis that lives "as if God did not exist."Organized by Spain's Catholic Association of Propagandists (ACdP, by its Spanish acronym), a manifesto has been issued for the Congress titled "Quo Vadis? Thinking and Acting in Times of Uncertainty."The manifesto points out that "the greater the loss of permanent references, the more political and social disorder there is" and refers both to "the concealment of everything that expresses the transcendence of the human being" and to the construction of a society that lives "as if God did not exist."In contrast, Catholics are encouraged to make "a redoubled effort in defending their fou...

Thought of the Day

Luke 8:1 

Jesus journeyed from one town and village to another, preaching and proclaiming the good news of the Kingdom of God.

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